1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cromadh (B.)

School: Cromadh (B.)

Location:
Croom, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 402

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 402

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cromadh (B.)
  2. XML Page 402
  3. XML “Liosta Focal a Bhíonn i nGnáthchaint agus i gComhrá Muintir na hÁite seo”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Liosta Focal a Bhíonn i nGnáthchaint agus i gComhrá Muintir na hÁite seo (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    (continued from page 91)
    to beat the peat into "snuff". This in connection with "hand-turf"

    Radaire
    (Cromadh) a puck (with a hurley) "with" a flying ball

    Stracallach
    a big rough unkempt fellow. (Cromadh)

    STRINE - = (? Straidhean) a streak of "cracktness"

    Fústar - agus Fústaire (Cromadh)

    Futachán
    droch-ainm a tabharthaí ar gharsún a fhliuchfadh an leaba nú a dhéanfadh aon rud
    "FOOTY" mar sin (Tiob. Ár.) footy = ? Fúithí = dirty in habits.

    "Now'splac-ack" = (neamh-spleadhach)
    always used as a substantive when I was a boy, to denote a "cool" or indifferent sort of person. (Tiob. Ár.)

    Dhrad = ? Draid
    a grin, a sneer an unpleasant cast of countenance (Tiob. Ár.)

    Knapoole = ? (cnap-shúla)
    said of a boy who has been crying, "look at the Knapoole of him" his eyes being much swollen. (Mrs D. Lyons, Main St. Croom)

    Dheana-gus-oo-acth
    a person who gets severely ill as a result o having done something foolish, like working in his short sleeves during the rain, or knowingly lying on wet grass is said to have got this "dheana-gus-ooacth" (same source as above)

    Grig = Griog
    to act so as to show how you begrudge others to have what you yourself have.

    Gráinseog - an extremely hard cake (Cromadh)

    Dhoo-ishg
    in the phrase "he has his Dhoo-ishg in" meaning "he has drink taken." (Cromadh)

    (Grainseóg agus "Dubh-uisg" from Mrs Hayes Main St. Croom)

    (Continued on page 112)
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. glossaries (~227)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Daithí O Ceanntabhail
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir